hondo

Noun
  1. The central and largest of the four main islands of Japan;
    Between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean;
    Regarded as the Japanese mainland (synset 108940697)
    is an instance of: island - a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water
    has:
    • capital of japan, edo, japanese capital, tokio, tokyo, yeddo, yedo - the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan
    • nagano - a city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine
    • nagoya - an industrial city in southern Honshu
    • omiya - a city of east central Honshu; a suburb of Tokyo
    • osaka - port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan
    • yokohama - port city on southeastern Honshu in central Japan
    • kobe - a port city in Japan on Osaka Bay in southern Honshu; was damaged by an earthquake in 1995
    • kyoto - a city in central Japan on southern Honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of Japan
    • hiroshima - a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
    • toyohashi - a Japanese city in southern Honshu on the Pacific shore
    • toyonaki - a Japanese city in southern Honshu; main residential suburb of Osaka
    • toyota - an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu
    • asama, mount asama - a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano; one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (8,340 feet)
    is a part of: japan, japanese archipelago, japanese islands - a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean
    same as: honshu

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